Roland Siegwart (born in 1959, Lausanne), is director of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) in

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, of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at

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and a known robotics expert.

Early life

Siegwart was born in Lausanne and grew up in the Canton of Schwyz. He received an MA in mechanical engineering from

in 1983 and, in 1989, a PhD degree with distinction Silver Medal ETH for his work on ''Electro-magnetically Suspended Milling Spindle with Active Digital Control''.

Career

After completing his doctorate, Siegwart was employed as a research assistant at various universities (

, HTL Zurich (since 2001 ZHAW),

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

California) and, in 1990, became Vice-President R&D at MECOS Traxler AG. Since 1996, Siegwart is associated as full professor at EPFL Lausanne and, in 2006, of

. From 2010 to 2014, Siegwart was Vice President Research and Corporate Relations of ETH Zurich. Siegwart's research activities focus on mobile robot design and navigation – localization and mapping, planning in dynamic environments, human–robot interaction, locomotion concepts for rough terrain, mobile micro-robots, space rovers, autonomous cars, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Siegwart is founder and co-founder of various high-tech startups, such as Shockfish Communication Ltd. (1999), BlueBotics Ltd. (2001), or ALSTOM Inf> and Aspection Robotics Ltd. (2006).ALSTOM Inspection Robotics Ltd.
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Publications

References

External links

IEEE RAS Pioneer Award Recipients
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